utopian visions of a dream world

quickly fade into dust

you finally seize the golden prize

and see it's really rust

obstacles are overcome but followed by another test

finally settling in the sun still get wracked by stress

happiness brings on psychic pain

for the darkness surely follows

the sun inevitably sets for each rise on the morrow



your reality of existence you can't escape

an absurd meaninglesness

yet you think you reason your inner world

can't explain why with it you're blessed

got no way to say who's right or wrong

takes thirtysomething states to ratify constitution

hitler pursued his destiny

with approval of public opinion

cut away fron God it is the human condition



no happy endings for the rich

see them languish and die alone

the poor die their absurd deaths

drugs or aids or starvation

conformed to the choice conformed to the fall

sweet breath of Revelation taken as a tale too tall

saving bitterest tears

for when the Truth hits their eyes

will God also cry knowing they won't be dried?